1919
13063
RESOLUTION ON THE TELEGRAM OF I. V. STALIN
November 8, 1919

To the Chairman of the Defense Council Lenin

According to reliable information received, the thefts of property of the Southern Front from the Ryazan engineering warehouse by the Ryazan District Revolutionary Committee to Kursk, conducted by Kornev, continue. The Revolutionary Military Council of the Southern Front demands your conclusion?* the immediate return to it of everything stolen by Kornev from the Southern Front warehouse. The Revolutionary Military Council demands that Kornev be held accountable for the theft of the property of the armies of the Southern Front.

Revolutionary Military Council of the Southern Front
Stalin

POWERS GRANTED TO M. M. LITVINOV
43978
MANDATE
November 13, 1919

The bearer of this document, member of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee and of the collegium of the People's Commissariat of Foreign Affairs Maxim Maximovich Litvinov, whose photographic identification is affixed hereto, is being dispatched on an urgent assignment abroad.

All provincial Cheka departments and Special Sections of the All-Union Cheka, Revolutionary Committees, railway, telegraph and other civil and military authorities are instructed to render comrade Litvinov every possible assistance along his route, to place at his disposal, without regard to priority, places and separate compartments in staff and other cars and separate cars, to accept from him and other comrades at his direction priority telegrams and to permit him to use direct wire communication with Moscow.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars
V. Ulyanov (Lenin)

*On the telegram there is a note by the People's Commissar of Justice D. I. Kursky: "Assign an investigation by order of the Revolutionary Military Council of the Republic."

44002
November 14, 1919

By this document the Council of People's Commissars of the Russian Federative Socialist Soviet Republic hereby fully empowers citizen Maxim Litvinov, member of the collegium of the People's Commissariat of Foreign Affairs, delegate of the Russian Red Cross, to conduct negotiations with the governments of Great Britain and other countries regarding the exchange of civilian prisoners and prisoners of war, to regulate the question of the situation of Russian citizens abroad and foreigners in Russia, to take all measures which he deems necessary for the protection of the interests of the Russian Republic and Russian citizens, to conclude loans in such sums as may be required for the fulfillment of the assignments given him, and on all the aforementioned questions to conclude and sign treaties in the name of the Soviet Republic. All representatives and diplomatic agents abroad of all the Commissariats and institutions of the Russian Republic are instructed to render citizen Litvinov all possible assistance and to comply with all his lawful demands.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars
Vl. Ulyanov (Lenin)